IN THIS ISSUE:
 New initiatives: workshops on DVD and webcast
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Erica Pinsky: Building workplace health with respect
Janice Abrahms Spring: On caring for an aging parent
Nick Ringma: Organic addictions treatment
Scared Stiff – a 10-hour training video by Dr. David Burns
Penny Allport: Exploring the gravity of words
BodyBus: Tools to help manage your health
Webcast and DVD workshops answer
need for quality training in tough times
 Dear Colleagues: With our fall workshop season quickly approaching, we have been working on new ways to better serve our loyal customers.
We realize there have been large cutbacks to training budgets throughout the past few years, and these cuts have come at a time when professionals need high-quality training more than ever.
Responding to this need, we are offering two new services this fall:
SEMINARS ON DVD AND ON THE WEB: Jack Hirose and Associates has teamed with several well
established U.S. based education companies, Premier Education Seminars
(PESI) and CMI Educational Institute to offer a series of seminars on DVDs, taught by many presenters we have worked with previously. These include Dr. David Burns, Dr. Don Meichenbaum, Bill O’Hanlon, Dr. Claudia Black, Dr. Paul Foxman, Dr. Ross Greene, Dr. Dan Siegel, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, Dr. Ron Siegel, Dr. Stephen Rollnick, Dr. Judith Beck, Dr. Steven Hayes and others.
 Visit us at bookstore.jackhirose.com to purchase these high-quality DVDs, books and other mental health and education resources. Our online bookstore is convenient, secure and easy. Special offer to e-News readers: For 5% off your order, use coupon code SUMMERENEWS (expires: August 15, 2011.)
Our second new service is webcasting live seminars held in the United States. Our first webcast will be held on Oct. 7, 2011 with Dr. Dan Siegel; the second will be on October 17, 2011 with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk. We hope the new webcast service will allow professionals from remote areas to learn from many of the finest presenters in the field. More information will be provided on our website in the coming months.
 FALL CONFERENCE 2011: We are excited to present this fall Canada’s premier psychotherapy and workplace mental health conference, Healing and Treating Trauma, Addictions & Related Disorders, co-sponsored by Edgewood Treatment Centre to be held at the Sheraton Vancouver Airport Hotel in Richmond, BC, Nov. 29 – Dec. 2, 2011. We have invited 13 speakers including Dr. Joan Boryshenko, Dr. Stephanie Covington, Dr. Rick Hansen, Dr. Janis Abrahms Spring, Dr. Janina Fisher Dr. John Briere, Dr. Reid Wilson, John Bradshaw, Dr. David Burns. This year we are offering a wide range of workshops that are relevant not only to psychotherapists but also to professionals employed in the workplace. In addition the conference will also offer three evening workshops on these topics: Public Speaking Anxiety with Dr. David Burns; Alcohol and Drugs and the New Brain Science with Lorne Hildebrand; and The Art and Science of Healing with Dr. Cardwell Nuckols. From our last newsletter, details on presenters to date.
This conference will cover a broad range of topics including addictions, trauma, mindfulness, relationships, anxiety, depression, caring for an aging parent, substance abuse and bullying in the workplace and more. For those not able to attend all 4 days, we have 1, 2 and 3 day options available. Visit www.jackhirose.com for more information about the conference and exhibiting opportunities.
HELP FOR LOCAL FOOD BANKS: Several years ago, we developed a program to support local food banks in Vancouver and Calgary. Thanks to our workshop participants, we were able to raise $3,000 worth of food last year at our annual Healing & Treating Trauma and Related Disorders conference in Vancouver. We intend to support the food bank again this fall.
WORKSHOP AIDES: Our workshop aide program has been an overwhelming success. We thank participants who helped at our spring/summer events. This program offers a significant discount in return for helping out at the workshop. For more information: http://www.jackhirose.com/workshopaides.html
JACK HIROSE AT FACEBOOK AND LINKEDIN: Keep up to date on the latest happenings with Jack Hirose and Associates at our new Facebook and LinkedIn pages.
All the best this summer,
Jack
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Life with Pop: Lessons on Caring for an Aging Parent by Janis Abrahms Spring, Ph.D., with Michael Spring
 You write from a unique perspective. Could you tell us about that?
Most of the time, I speak from my own first-hand experience as a loving, overwhelmed daughter, shepherding her elderly father through the final years of his life. But from time to time, I step into my role as a clinical psychologist and counsel patients with caregiving issues of their own. In weaving together their stories with mine, I create a perspective that’s both intensely personal and universal.
How is your book different from other books on caregiving?
Life with Pop strips away the platitudes that surround most writing on caregiving and addresses both its joy and imposition, its happiness and its heartache. The result, I hope, is both inspirational and refreshingly honest. | Read more
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From harm to harmony – building workplace health with respect
By Erica Pinsky
“Janine” used to love her job. Focused and engaged, she had been a team player and top performer who consistently delivered impressive results. Now she wakes up every day feeling sick, and dreads the thought of having to go in to the office.
Work has become a nightmare. She has to endure constant criticism, public ridicule, sarcasm and fits of unpredictable rage from her current boss. One day Janine wakes up and just can’t face it. Rather than go to work, she calls in sick and heads to her doctor’s office.
Although Janine doesn’t realize it, she has been the target of workplace bullying, a growing problem now affecting 1 in 4 workers in Canada. The Canada Safety Council estimates that workplace bullying is at least four times more common than harassment, and affects up to 75% of workers in some organizations. However, like “Janine”, far too many businesses fail to recognize the danger of disrespect before it takes a toll on the health of both their employees and their bottom line.
While both bullying and harassment are disrespectful behaviors, a critical distinction is that workplace harassment is a legal issue for all Canadian employers. The legal framework has raised awareness about harassment as a type of discriminatory behavior. Racial slurs, off-color jokes, unwanted sexual attention or inappropriate touching are recognized by both employers and employees as disrespectful and problematic in the workplace. | Read more
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Body resources for therapists:
Exploring the gravity of words
 By Penny Allport
In my last article I proposed the idea that answering the “Where am I?” question is essential in addressing the age-old question of “Who am I?” which as therapists, we tend daily. Resourcing ourselves through the felt sense of what we are in contact with (our chair and the floor for example) in any given moment, gives us access to moments of what I like to call the “embodied now,” and offer a direction experience of “where” I am.
In considering what we call a body, we discover at least 3.5 billion years of evolutionary history and intelligence prior to our present form and experience. What happens when we begin to resource ourselves in ways life has resourced itself since the single cell organism appeared on the planet? Does becoming “human” mean we exclude our evolutionary resources of the past? | Read more
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A ‘green breakthrough’ in organic
addictions treatment
 By Nick Ringma, ICADC
A staff team at the Last Door Recovery Centre in New Westminster, BC, were recently having a conversation about all the changes in addictions treatment. The topics were wild. The co-dependency ran rampant. The invasion of the system of care into the lives of clients. The assumptions of co-occurring and concurrent disorders based on assessing drug impaired individuals. The idea that 21-day treatment might be the way to go.
Around the table were persons in recovery who were clean, had all been to multiple treatments, had varying diagnosis on the way, and had never done recovery straight up. This time was different, they did treatment, had fun, made friends and stayed clean for 5, 10, 15, 25 years.
The idea of actually doing recovery and learning to live and enjoy life without drugs has been sublimated as a goal in much of what parades as care for addicts. I would posit that the next breakthrough in addictions treatment will be going back to basics. Detox, abstinence-based residential treatment, restoration of fun and support programs to maintain long-term recovery. Living life in community! | Read more
Tools to help manage your health
 JHA's in-house information systems developer and manager Steve St-Laurent, who deals personally with kidney failure, has developed a software tool, BodyBus, to help people manage their health. It tracks and graphs vital signs, prescriptions, etc. and has nutritional info on more than 5,500 food items. A log lets patients store documents and organize information to better communicate with health-care providers. | Visit bodybus.ca
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